WORLD HEADLINES 5/14/15, Middle East Edition: 200 Latest Breaking News and Top Stories

It now seems likely that orders were issued by Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi himself to get rid of businessman and leader of Al-Wafd Party, Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, who owns Al-Hayat TV Channel network. This is just one part of the fierce war raging ...

The German government has pledged an additional $41 million to support an UNRWA shelter assistance programme in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN agency said that it has already received a total of $93 million (€80 mill...

Better accommodation for some, new payment rules for everyone. But despite the reforms, many workers still complain of low pay and long hours It’s an incongruous location for a cricket stadium. In the shimmering heat of Doha’s industrial...

After a lightning advance across the desert in which they overran government forces in ferocious fighting that cost the lives of 110 combatants, the jihadists were within two kilometres (a little more than a mile) of the ruins, the Syria...

A senior Iranian official branded Saudi Arabia's King Salman a traitor to Islam on Thursday and equated the Gulf state's military assault on Iranian-allied fighters in Yemen with Israeli actions against Palestinians. Alaeddin Boroujerdi,...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a bombing in Benghazi that killed 3 children, it has been reported by Anadolu . The children were killed on Tuesday when a mortar shell hit their home; a fourth brother was wounded. Two civilians were ...

Britain's Royal Navy has rescued more than 400 migrants in the Mediterranean, four miles off the coast of Libya. HMS Bulwark came to the aid of four inflatable boats, each carrying more than 100 people, including children and pregnant wo...

Israel said it would not allow "unauthorised boats" to enter the territorial waters of the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Pos t reported. Swedish boat, named Marianne of Gothenburg, announced it set off from Sweden , to take part in the floti...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave three conditions to reconcile with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, however they were all rejected, Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradawi, the son of the head of the Global Union for Muslim Scholars,...

Saudi Arabia’s plan is working. As oil prices drop to near six-year lows, the oil-producing nation has kept its taps flowing at record high volumes in an attempt to force rivals like U.S. shale drilling operations out of business.

The Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS, uses passports stolen from Westerners to help recruits travel to join the group in Iraq and Syria, a report by Dubai's Al Aan TV said. Stolen passports were found at an ISIS site in S...

Lockheed Martin has received a $174 million contract to produce long-range, surface-to-surface missiles called “Army Tactical Missile System” (ATACMS) for the U.S. Army and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the defense contractor announced...

Israeli media sources have reported that the Canadian authorities are preparing to take legal action against civil organisations which promote a boycott of Israel, as well as those who support them. According to Israeli newspaper Yisrael...

President Barack Obama and senior officials from six Gulf nations are continuing their summit Thursday on issues in the Middle East, including a potential nuclear deal with Iran and the fighting in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya. The talks...

The occupation was only partially successful in implanting the culture of defeat and surrender, even 67 years after the Nakba. This is because people are alive and will not die and because the free Palestinian women do not stop giving bi...

Aid spending on a downwards trajectory, with major cuts to Asia, Africa and the Middle East Record cuts outlined in the 2015 federal budget will see Australia’s foreign aid relative to income fall to the lowest levels since the creation ...

Hamas hailed the decisions of several academic institutions across the US and Europe to boycott Israel, saying this will isolate it and lead to it facing charges in court. Speaking to Quds Press on Monday, senior Hamas leader Izzat Al-Re...

Business Club at 25th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair has witnessed numerous bilateral meetings between publishers, authors and translators to sign publishing agreements, purchase translation rights.

US President Barack Obama has praised his country's relationship with Saudi Arabia, saying that the two countries have always enjoyed an "extraordinary" friendship going back many years. "The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extrao...

There is no formal proof that the pilot of a Moroccan fighter jet, that crashed in crisis-hit Yemen last Sunday, was actually killed and the search for him continues, local media reported citing a statement by the Moroccan Army.

ISTANBUL -- A massive explosion injured dozens of people in Gaza Thursday evening and killed at least one, according to local radio reports. The explosion took place when a team in northern Gaza tried to defuse a bomb left over from the ...

Iraq's defense ministry said Wednesday that a coalition airstrike had killed the Islamic State group's deputy commander, a claim the U.S. military said it could not confirm. The airstrike targeted Abu Alaa al-Afari and others as they met...

The Vatican’s recognition of Palestinian statehood this week has been heralded as a crucial diplomatic victory by Palestinian officials, but to the members of one group the acknowledgement is more than just political. Some Palestinian Ch...

Special Statistical Bulletin by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Nakba literally means a natural disaster such as an earthquake, volcano, or hurricane. However, the Nakba in Palestine is a process of destroying unarmed indigenous...

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Beit Eskarya village, surrounded by the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, south of Bethlehem, handed a demolition order of a barn, and handed three families military orders to stop the construct...

Two Swedes and a Somali, handed to the FBI more than two years ago in Africa, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to aid the al-Qaida-linked Shebab group in Somalia, U.S. prosecutors said. The trio face up to 15 years in an American pri...

Several hundred people, some in military uniforms, demonstrated Tuesday in the capital of the restive Central African Republic over a peace forum's recommendation that upcoming general and presidential elections be delayed. The protester...

Cuba and the United States will exchange ambassadors once the island is removed from the U.S. blacklist of state terrorism sponsors, President Raul Castro said Tuesday, though Washington said there was no set timetable. Castro said conve...

The Future bloc Tuesday denounced Hezbollah over its ongoing offensive against rebel groups in Syria's western Qalamoun region, insisting the Lebanese Army alone was responsible for protecting the country's borders.

French police on Tuesday said they would probe a shocking video showing violence against migrants in the northern port town of Calais, from where they hope to cross to Britain. The amateur footage shows policemen repeatedly beating and k...

(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Thursday, a military source within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia (better known as the Iraqi Volunteer Fighters) revealed, that al-Hashed al-Sha’bi forces have shelled sites for the ISIS mil...

(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited on Thursday areas of Adhamiya and Kadhimiya north of Baghdad, after the recent events in the Adhamiya district on Friday, and the security forces’ control over ...

(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Thursday, Reuters reported that ISIS militants have dug trenches around gas tanks at Baiji’s oil refinery, raising the stakes in a battle where the price of victory may be the refinery itself a...

(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Armed Services Committee in the US Congress announced Wednesday, omitting the item categorizing the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Sunni tribes as “states” in the draft defense budget law...

ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast’s youth and sports minister said on Wednesday he had left the government amid a scandal involving missing player bonuses for its African championship-winning soccer team. The minister, Alain Lobognon, said that he ha...

MOSCOW: A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled against jailing leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny after the prison authorities asked for his suspended sentence to be turned into a custodial term. A nail-biting hearing in southern Mo...

NIAMEY: Niger has adopted a law that could see human smugglers facing up to 30 years in prison in an effort to stem the flow of illegal immigrants crossing its borders in hopes of getting to Europe. The parliament adopted the law on Mond...

SKOPJE: The Macedonian parliament on Wednesday formally approved the replacement of the interior and transport ministers in Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s cabinet amid an escalating political crisis in the Balkan nation. Lawmakers appr...

Damascus, SANA – President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday received Chairman of the Iranian Shura Council’s Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security Alaeddin Boroujerdi and the accompanying delegation. Talks during the meeting dea...

Tehran, May 12, IRNA - The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Ertharin Cousin said the UN agency is ready to forward the food and medical relief consignments of Iran for the war-hit people of Yemen.

Damascus, SANA- Minister of Industry Kamal-Eddin Toumeh discussed on Wednesday with Cristiano Pasini, the Regional Representative of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) following up on the second stage of an indust...

Hasaka, SANA-Terrorists of the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) abducted on Wednesday scores of families in Markada town, 100 km to the south of Hasaka, taking them to unknown place. Local sources told SANA reporter that ISIS terro...

One of Turkey’s largest state-owned banks, Ziraat Bank, was authorized by the country’s banking regulator to begin operations in its Islamic banking division, according to the government’s official gazette on May 14

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's military intelligence forces identified and kill a notorious ISIL commander on Tuesday before he could stage a series of terrorist attacks on the Shiite pilgrims in the capital city of Baghdad.

The UK Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Dowlat Nowrouzi, addressed the recent popular protests in Iran during an online Q&A session on Tuesday, May 12. In her remarks, Ms. Nowrouzi highlighted the ...

A theology professor has said the deaths of miners who died in Turkey’s worst ever industrial accident last year, while trying to make an honest living, died in a “better” way than those who die while committing crimes

On Wednesday, Robert Joseph, the former United States Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation participated in the latest in a series of online question-and-answer sessions hosted by the website IranFreedom.org. The former Under-Secret...

Damascus, SANA – Chairman of the Iranian Shura Council’s Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that his visit to Syria comes to speak out loud in the face of the false media campaigns and to st...

Tehran, May 12, IRNA – Iraqi President Fouad Masoum arrived in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon. President Massoum, who is on the head of a high ranking delegation, is in Tehran upon invitation of President Hassan Rouhani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Riyadh government delayed the execution of prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, for an unlimited period as the danger of wide anti-regime protests was looming, an informed source said Tuesday.

Turkey’s economic growth will remain broadly unchanged at 3 percent in 2015 and 2016, significantly below the country’s long-term potential, said the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in its latest Regional Economic...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Arab writer and journalist criticized the Arab states for trading their pride with Washington, and said US President Barack Obama has mocked leaders of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) by inviting the...

In his remarks at the United States Military Academy at West Point on May 28, 2014, President Barack Obama elucidated at this commencement ceremony: “America’s support for democracy and human rights goes beyond idealism; it is a matter o...

Weeks before the general elections, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has changed its much-criticized digital strategy, replacing its infamous “trolls” with a “regular army” - at least on paper.

Beirut, SANA-Syrian football team of al-Jaish beat its Lebanese al-Najma counterpart 2-0 in the match held on Wednesday in Sidon within the 4th group of the Asian Football confederation Cup. Basel Mustafa and Abdul-Latif Salkeni scored f...

Provinces, SANA – Units of the army and armed forces on Wednesday continued to tighten noose around foreign-backed terrorist organizations across the country, killing and injuring scores of their members and destroying their weaponry. Da...

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) council approved a transportation project which includes an air rail (havaray) system between the Başakşehir and Halkalı districts on its European side, in an attempt to improve the city’s tra...

A prosecutor who was recently dismissed from the profession after being involved in the huge corruption investigation of December 2013 has said Turkey’s top judicial body has become a threat to the impartiality of the judiciary

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Prime Minister's Office in a statement issued on Tuesday lashed out at the recent statements made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on independence of the Kurdish population of Iraq.

The Cappadocia region will welcome a brand new festival called Cappadox. The event aims to establish a multi-disciplinary platform to enjoy the special geography of the region through music, art and gastronomy for three days.